[Distutils] How to force installing setuptools instead of distribute ?

[David Cournapeau]

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 5:20 PM, P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
>> At 10:50 AM 7/1/2010 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>>>
>>> It's precisely because Ubuntu is a good distribution that they decided
>>> to switch to distribute to get the most active project in it.
>>
>> Really?  I would've thought that the most *stable* version of a project
>> would generally be the better choice for an operating system distribution.
>>  ;-)
>
> It's a better choice than setuptools, which is unmaintained for two
> years with pending bugfixes.

It is again obviously wrong, since setuptools works and distribute
does not for my use case.

I am not sure how to put this more clearly: if you pretend to be a
piece of software you are not, you better have to work for 100 % cases
of the old one. Not 90 %, not 99 %. Anything short of 100 % is
unacceptable.

If you can't guarantee 100 % compatibility, you don't force people to
use your software instead of another one, I don't understand how I
even have to explain this, really.

David